Smyrna times., 1887-04-20
The Witch's Fate,
CRUEL PREJUDICE OF OLD TIMES
MORE THAN EQUALED NOW.

Not many decades ago in this coun-
try, the people were excited over
witchcraft. Persons suspected were
thrown into the water if not witches,
they would drown; if they were
witches, they would swim ashore, and
would be put to death In any event,
they were doomed
Not many years ago if a person were
taken sick with advanced disorder of
the kidneys, the physician would pro-
nOunce the disease Bright's disease, and
when so declared, he regarded his re-
sponsibility at an end, for medical au-
thority admitted that the disease was
incurable.
When the physician found a patient
thus afflicted. he would say, "Oh,
slight attack of the kidneys; will be
all right in a little while" He knew
to the contrary. But if he could keep
his patient on his hands for few
months, he knew he would derive a
great revenue from his case, and then
when the disease had progressed to a
certain stage, he would state the facts
and retire, exOnerated from all blame.
But the error of supposing the dis
ease incurable, has swayed the public
mind, long after the fact has ceased to
be. But public opinion has been edu-
ted to the true status of the case by
| those who have discounted the incura-
bility theory, and the public recognizes
and testifies to that fact that Warmers
safe cure is a specific for this disease.
This has been shown with thousands of
testimonials.
70 IN, Elnc
we find that So 600 reward will be given
to any one who can prove that so far
as the manufacturers know they are
| not genuine, and that hundreds of
! thousands similar in character could
be published, if it were necessary.
This condition of things is very
amusing to the journalist, who looks
upon all sides of every question. Proof
should be accepted by all, but preju-
dice fights proof for many years. 1t
seems strange that when a prOpritary
medicine is doing the good that War
ner's safe cure is, that the physicians
do not publicly indorse it. Many of
them, we are told, privately prescribe
it, as it is sold by dealers in every part
of the country.
A few years ago, as stated, when a
man had Bright's disease, the doctor
boldly announced it, because he
thought it relieved him of responsible
ity.
To-day when prominent people are
dying land hudreds of thousands Oi
common people die of the same dis.
easel, we are told that doctors disguise
the fact that it is Brights disease O.
the kidneys and say that they die o
paralysis, of apoplexy, of pneumonia, O.
consumption, Of general debility, o
rheumatism, of heart disease of the
direct effects of kidney disease. They
are not the real disease itself
We sometimes wonder if they avoiC
stating the real cause of disease for feal
they will drive the public into patron
age of the only scientific proprietary
specific for kidney diseases and tn,
thousand and one diseases that Origi
nate in inactive kidneys.
We do not believe every advertise
ment We read. Some people perhap
may regard this article as an advertise
/ ment and will not believe it, but w
are candid enough to say that we be
lleve the parties above mentioned hav
stated their case and proved it, an,
$ under such circumstances the public
5 unwise if it is longer influenced by ad
! verse prejudice